Directory of Rules and Administration Resources

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• Joseph Story on the Senate Rulemaking Power

  http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_3_4-5s4.html
  In his Commentaries on the Constitution, Story wrote that the power of the senate to prescribe rules could not be deemed omnipotent. It must be construed with reference to, and in connexion with the power to preside.

• Senate Manual

  http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/searchresults.action?st=collection:sman
  Search engine for the Senate Manual which includes the rules, orders, laws, and resolutions affecting the business of the Senate. Also includes Jefferson's Manual, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution.

• The Constitution

  http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_5.html
  The Senate is authorized to make rules for its proceedings by Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution.

• Thomas Jefferson's Manual Of Parliamentary Practice

  http://www.constitution.org/tj/tj-mpp.htm
  Jefferson was the second Senate President, and he put together this manual which is nowadays more applicable in the House of Representatives than the Senate.

• U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee

  http://rules.senate.gov/
  Deals with Senate infrastructure, assigning offices, Senate rules, attendance, corruption, member qualifications, contested elections, federal elections generally, Government Printing Office, Congressional Record, presidential succession, monuments, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, and monitoring court cases that affect Congress.

 

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